Rosemary Arrojo (University of Binghampton)

Fictional Translators

Rethinking Translation through Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions, Fictional Translators invites readers to rethink the main clichés associated with translations and shines a light on the transformative character of the translator's role and the relationships that can be established between originals and their reproductions. This book is key reading for students and researchers of Literary Translation, Comparative Literature and Translation Theory.

Produktdetails

• New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 101mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781138827141
• ISBN-10: 1138827142
• Artikelnr.: 48705825

Autorenporträt

Rosemary Arrojo is Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Power of Fiction as Theory: The Exemplarity of Borges's Work 2. On
Translation as Transference: Pierre Menard, Translator of Cervantes 3.
Translation as Subversion in Latin American Fiction 4. On Translation as
Transference: Borges, Reader of Whitman 5. A Portrait of the Translator as
Laborer - Rodolfo Walsh's "Nota al pie" 6. Writing and Interpreting in
Conflict - Kafka, Borges and Kosztolányi 7. The Power of Originals and the
Perils of Repetition - Edgar A. Poe's "The Oval Portrait" 8.Translation and
Impropriety- Claude Bleton's Les nègres du traducteur 9. The Gendering of
Translation - Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and Moacyr
Scliar's "Footnotes" 10. Textual/Sexual Power in José Saramago's History of
the Siege of Lisbon and Isaac Babel's "Guy de Maupassant"